[sugar] [PATCH] New Activity Launcher

[Gary C Martin]

On 22 Aug 2008, at 20:45, Eben Eliason wrote:

> My recent interactions with the launcher have led me to frustration.
> I updated a number of tickets on the subject, and also created an
> aggragator to track them all (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8090).  The
> attached patch is an attempt to solve nearly all of the known
> problems.  Testing would be very much appreciated.
>
> The only known issue I've found with this patch is that you can't
> click on the activity level button (in the Frame) while a launcher is
> the selected activity (though you can click on the launcher icon
> directly).  Marco understands this issue, but feels we might be better
> off working in a fix separately, since it could be more invasive.
> Apart from that know bug, I believe that this new launcher yields
> expected behavior everywhere; if you disagree, or find other bugs, let
> me know!

Hi Eben, I applied this to a joyride-2330, on an XO, and initially it  
feels _much_ better.

However, I've also noticed, particularly when test launching  
Calculate-23, if you reveal the frame (mouse corner or key), after  
letting the icon pulse get going, Calculate will fail to start (it's  
logs complain about rainbow**). I've also managed it with Pippy-25  
though not yest with other activities, so it might be a timing issue.  
When the frame is invoked and the activity fails to launch, there's  
quite a bit of screen redraw/flicker, wonder if the frame arrival is  
overlapping the time that the activity is redrawing and focus is going  
astray mid way through. (email if you want some specific testing from  
me)

***The program 'rainbow-daemon' recieved an X Window System error  
(both pippy and calculate logs had this during a launch fail)

Regards,
--Gary